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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.
When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length.
The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.
I didn't really know my wingspan was that short until it got measured. Either way, I was good with whatever my arm length is.
My sexuality, in terms of 'Strictly' or whatever else I do in my life, ought to be as irrelevant as the length of my big toe.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.
Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.
My hair is always going to be purple; that's kind of my thing. It doesn't matter what length I make it, as long as it's purple.
Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
I always give weightage to performance more than the length of my character. That has always been my criteria for signing a film.
I have dreamed of being a champion in WWE, and there's nothing I won't do, no length I won't go to, in order to keep it that way.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.
I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.
Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.
I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.
I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
Some guys are always gifted: Amazing length, amazing athleticism. But just put me in front of that guy. That's my mindset. I'm gonna battle.
I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.
On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.